Mental-health reform languishing in Florida Legislature

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Wth Florida legislators past the session’s halfway mark, hopes that they’ll agree on any sort of major overhaul for the state’s overwhelmed, underfunded mental-health system are fading fast.

Proposals to educate schoolchildren about mental illness and establish mental-health courts have stalled. And a broad reform bill — tapping more federal funding and allowing more flexibility in treatment options — also opens up the state’s safety-net system to for-profit companies. Many find that troubling.

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And they are always blaming it all on the ACT*when really, it`s the big companies and the senators in each state that hold back the money–and where does it go?
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